“‘They Met Their Fate Without a Sigh’: An Analysis of Military Executions in the Army of Northern Virginia,” in Andrew F. Lang and Andrew Bledsoe, eds., Upon the Fields of Battle: Essays on the Military History of America’s Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming).

“The Devil Himself Could Not Have Checked Them’: Fighting with Black Soldiers at the Crater,” in Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline Janney eds., Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, 2015): 264-82

“The Best Servant By Far,” in Ted Widmer ed., Disunion: Modern Scholars and Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Fort Sumter to the Emancipation Proclamation (Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2013), 411-15.

“‘Is There Not Glory Enough To Give Us All a Share?’: An Analysis of Competing Memories of the Battle of the Crater,” in Aaron Sheehan-Dean ed., The View From the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers, (University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 227-248.

Journal Articles

Co-authored with Beth Parnicza and Emmanuel Dabney, “Interpreting Race, Slavery, and United States Colored Troops at Civil War Battlefields,” Civil War History (June 2016): 131-48.

“Teaching Civil War History: From the Classroom to the Battlefield,” Civil War History, (March 2016): 76-79.

“Black Confederates Out of the Attic and Into the Mainstream,” Journal of the Civil War Era, (December 2014): 627-35.

“The Flags are Down. Now What? Grappling with Monuments and Iconography,” Participant in Roundtable Discussion, Annual Meeting of American Association of State and Local History, Louisville, KY, September 18, 2015.

“The Battle of the Crater in Memory,” Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, June 2014.

“Race, Labor, and Mobilization: Teaching the Civil War Through Film,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, WI, April 2012.

Panelist on Civil War Sesquicentennial Working Group sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, WI, April 2012.

“Searching for Black Confederates in History and Memory: The Case of Silas Chandler”, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Richmond, Virginia, October 2011.

“‘When You’re Black, the Great Battlefield Holds Mixed Messages’: Discussing Race at the Petersburg National Battlefield” Conference on the Civil War Sesquicentennial and Public History at North Carolina State University, March 26, 2011.

“Reflections on the Civil War Sesquicentennial in Virginia” sponsored by the Brunswick County Committee of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, forum with Waite Rawls III and Christie Coleman, October 26, 2010.

“Mahone’s Brigade and the Defense of Petersburg”, The Civil War and American Society Seminar sponsored by Shepherd University and Pamplin Park, June 2010.

Moderator for panel on Southern History at the Annual Meeting of the Virginia Social Science Association, Virginia State University, March 27, 2010.

Moderator for panel on Public History, Slavery, and Slave Resistance at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Louisville, November 2009.

“Lincoln and the South,” The American Civil War Center, Richmond, March 14, 2009.

“Blogging the American Civil War,” Society for Civil War Historians Annual Meeting at the Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2008.

“The Relevance of Lee Today,” University of Virginia Continuing Studies Program sponsored conference on “Lee at 200″ October 31, 2007.

“The Battle of the Crater, William Mahone, and Civil War Memor,” Conference on Civil War Memory, Shepherd University, June 2007.

“Soldiers, Citizens, and Sources: The Uses of Civil War Soldiers in Writing U.S. History” (Roundtable), Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007.

“Landscapes and the Lost Cause: An Analysis of the 1903 and 1937 Crater Reenactments,” The Virginia Forum, Winchester, Virginia, March 2006, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, January 2006.

“‘I Understand Our Men Just Chopped Them To Pieces”: Confederates Remember U. S. Colored Troops at the Crater,” Conference on African Americans in the Civil War, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, May 2005.

“Douglas Southall Freeman’s Interpretation of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia”, The Douglas S. Freeman History Conference, University of Richmond, February 2002.

“The Other Gettysburg Address: An Introduction to Civil War Memory,” Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, June 2013.

“Massacre at the Crater: Addressing the Tough Questions of Civil War History in the Classroom,” Regional Teacher Institute, Civil War Trust, Petersburg, Virginia, April 20, 2013.

“Teaching Glory in the Classroom” and “Black Confederates and Digital Media Literacy in the Classroom,” The Richard Bartol, Jr. Educator’s Conference at Gettysburg, National Park Service, July 16, 2012.

“From Civil War to Civil Rights” w/Professor Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [Teaching American History Grant Workshop for teachers from Virginia Beach], January 2011.

Roundtable Discussion on teaching Civil War history and Social Media, Civil War Preservation Trust Annual Teachers Institute, July 2010.

“Civil War Memory in the Classroom” w/ Professor Robert Kenzer, University of Richmond [Teaching American History Grant Workshop for teachers from Charlotte County, Danville City, Halifax County, and Pittsylvania County Public Schools], February 20, 2009.